12/5/10

paul oakenfold

vegas is enough of an entertainment draw that several big names have semi-permanent shows here: barry manilow, penn & teller, cher, et al ... and in that vein, paul oakenfold is the house DJ at the palms.

yesterday night he spun a free-for-locals show in the rain nightclub.  i haven't seen him there since he's been resident -i did, however, see him in lake tahoe a few years ago- so i went to check it out.

even though it was saturday night -shortly after the show had started- my accomplice and i were waved in quickly.

quite a place, quite a show.  pyrotechnic lighting apparatus, go-go dancers, light-up men on stilts, glow-in-the-dark women working trapeze hoops from the superior illumination rigs, half naked men on ropes, a dozen high def. imagery TVs.  think "death star if it had a cool disco."

an almost entirely white audience in their 20's.  women in tight black dresses.  men with their shirts unbuttoned one extra place.


zen freeman opened for two hours, then without break it was mr. oakenfold.


loud.  frenetic.  bustling without feeling crowded.  everyone having a good time.  i stayed for about 45 minutes of paul and then left.  it was the perfect dose of dance/techno.

not really a kutrate per se (anyone with a NV ID could get in free), but i consider free shows to absolutely be in the kutrate spirit.

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